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To corrupt with regard to chastity; to make a whore of. J. Fletcher.

A cavern in a cliff, at the water level, opening to the air at its farther extremity, so that the waters rush in with each surge and rise in a lofty jet from the extremity.

A house or building appropriated to brewing; a brewery.

Of a single and sincere heart. If he keeps heart-whole towards his Master. Bunyan.

The European green woodpecker. See Yaffle.

To exceed in lewdness.

A kind of rack, shaped like a double St. Andrew's cross, on which sticks of wood are laid for sawing by hand; -- called also buck, and sawbuck.

A sleuthhound. [R.]

Words imitative of the notes of the owl. Thy tu-whits are lulled, I wot, Thy tu-whoos of yesternight. Tennyson.

Not whole; unsound. [Obs.]

To throw one's self quickly, or by an abrupt motion; to turn suddenly; as, she whapped down on the floor; the fish whapped over. Bartlett.

Something uncommonly large of the kind; something astonishing; -- applied especially to a bold lie. [Colloq.]

Very large; monstrous; astonishing; as, a whapping story. [Colloq.]

dow; also, rarely, the state of being a widower. Johnson clung to her memory during a widowhood of more than thirty years. Leslie Stephen.

The first three letters of the alphabet, used for the whole alphabet.

One who uses an abacus in casting accounts; a calculator.

One who steals and drives away cattle or beasts by herds or droves. [Obs.]

ounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender. Hope was overthrown, yet could not be abandoned. I. Taylor.

One to whom anything is legally abandoned.

One who abandons. Beau. & Fl.